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I appreciate your writing this. Unfortunately we (and more importantly the workers) are facing an entity which does not perceive compassion or dignity - simila
by andrei_says_ 3y ago
I appreciate your writing this.
Unfortunately we (and more importantly the workers) are facing an entity which does not perceive compassion or dignity - similar to how we don’t see ultraviolet light.
What can be measured - is measured - is profit and efficiency. There’s no equivalent to Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index.
The price of infinitely growing profits is the constant increase of agony for the workers and the enshittification of the service and product - because the profit needs to come from somewhere.
Someone said that every Amazon order starts an invisible Rube Goldberg machine of human suffering which delivers a thing to our doors.
Yes, what if we made that machine visible? What if we had a choice to alleviate some of the suffering, some of the time?
Would the explicit admission of the fact that we participate in sadistic treatment of human beings and the choice to diminish some strangers’ agony… help?
Don’t know but would be one hell of a social experiment.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_National_Happiness https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_National_Happiness
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/?amp https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/?amp
- Haga 3y ago[dead]
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 3y agoThey can measure some approximation of happiness by doing regular, anonymous surveys. They can count the bottles of pee which are most definitely not a sign of happiness, or the # or injuries.
- thewildginger 3y agoThought experiment that radicalized my thoughts on our economic system: with all the data being collected on people about their behavior, habits, quality of life, demographic differences etc, we could probably know the reality acutely of many societal ails, and this find better ways to fix them. Instead it is being used to effectively continue human suffering so a few can be powerful and feel special.
- sieabahlpark 3y ago[dead]